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General Has Served For 52 Years
-But Has
Policemen
Drank "Best Part Of His Bottle Of Gin" DIALOGUE
Never Seen A Battle
BY DUDLEY BARKER
AN American general who is
on holiday in London holds a THE CADS AT
nice record: At the age of 72 he has served continuously in the American army and the National Guard for 32 years and has never once seen a battle.
"It all started with the Spanish war of '00," General de Witt Clinton Fails said as he described the seven wars which he nearly, saw.
WENT TO RUSSIA
"Not that there was very much to
IT AGAIN
OLD SCHOOL TIE TO BE CHANGED
The cads have been at it again, in England, wearing old school at Bow-street, after Police Constable Warne-
ties to which they are most I was in the crowd that went certainly not entitled. ford had said he visited a bottle ses
to Porto Rico, and by the time we party in plain clothes, paid 24s.got there the war was over. In fact, had a bottle of gin:-
Bolile party proprietor: I think you drank the best part of the ballic?
Folice Constable Warneford: I should think so. Yes.
You could D. P. Proprietor: not have made very clear notes, after drinking about three parts of a bottle of rin?
Police Constable Warneford: I could remember a lot of what occurred.
.
"As the years go by the question we were mel on the dock by the of the old school tie appears to be- local band playing The Star-come more vexed,” says Mr. R. Porch, Spangled Banner in the island we secretary of the Malveraian Society. the Malvern College were supposed to be invading. So writing In we all had a nice winter in the sun-maguzine. shine and went off home.
"The 30 years I have been secre- with the "Then, in 1994, I was
tary there has been a regular stream Turks while they contemplated wur
of letters on the subject of the Old with Dulgarin for three months. But
Malvernian colours, usually to say In the end they did not do anything
they were being worn by nippers i about it.
Liverpool docks or bookler touts.
*After
that I went to Russia ast
The fle is bright and appealed to Military Attache to the Russian army this type.
the Russo-Japanese-war of
CUTTING OUT APPEAL The proprietor, Sidary Kavalle, of in Cambridge-street, W.C., owner of the course, was nowhere near the fight-
"Other public schools and clubs Venelian Battle Party, Kingly-street, ing, but I saw a lot of mobilisation. W, was fined £150 and ordered to "There was one little adventure in have already done what we now have, pay £20 costs for selling liquor with-1911 when I went down with the namely, modified the colours in hope
in the Brsi
Balkon they will no longer appeal to the tnsle but a liernce; £50, with £10 costs. Montenegrins for keeping the place for public war. I was miles from the front, of the above-mentioned gentlemen." dancing without an LC.C. licence. Then I came over to this country and His wife, Marlon Kavollc. was went back to Brussels, where I was Aned £20, Mrs. Ray Teague, dance when the Great War started. hustess, £ 10, and Miss Doreen
"As soon as the Germans started Learner, dance hostess. £5 for selling bombing we were moved
back deinits without a licence,
we were only abservers.
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The Old Malvernians' tie consists of blue, black and red diagonal stripes.
"I think the colours are very dis- asjunctive and should not be modified," said Mr. H. Nevil Smart, O..E., an Old Malvernian.
"I spent the next few months in England and Scotland taking part in and the mobilisation proceedings, then I had to hurry back to Amerien In 1010 Because they thought there was going to be a war with Mexico,
WAR WAS OVER
There are always people about who take a delight in wearing, say, bave en Elontan's tle when they never been to Eton. Nice people don't do that sort of thing, but, of course, there is nothing to stop them."
Now, then, cads, cut it out.
"We sat on the Mexican border for six months in the tropical heat-the (most monotonous thing I ever knew King to decide how the office should
and in the end there wasn't any be performed. war after all.
New York, Aug. 18.
The flavour of ancien offices still ILM star Gary Cooper's
"When I got back to New York I touches the Court of Claims, but value is assessed at
When Amerien much of the picturesqueness has now got pneumonia. £1,000,000 by Paramount Joined the war I was not fit enough departed, mainly because, since the Coronation of George IV., the great banquet that followed in Westmins ter Hall has not been held,
Productions, Inc., his present contract holders.
To-day began a legal action to recover £1,000,000. damages
SHOP from Mr. Samuel Goldwyn.
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"I did a certain amount of time with a training regimerit, and just unit the war finished.
1 was drafted to an active service
For that reason many of the old offices, such as that of larderer, of naperer, of carverer or panterer have
"I stayed on the general staff for automatically lost all meaning, and two or three years, and then went are not now claimed. Paramount allege that Cooper was back to the National Guard. Now
Claims to the right to make wafers, lured from then by "false and my job is writing the bistory of the to be Sergeant of the Silver Scullery; fraudulent" statements while they National Guard the same thing as to serve the King with a towel be were negotiating with him for a new your Territorial Army-In New York fore the banquet or to furnish a contract. The allegation is denied. State.
mess of Dillegrout have either been Gary Cooper's more recent starring "Sinet then,"
said the General dropped in recent years or have been parts were in "Desire" and "Lives of with a sigh of relief, "things have placed outside the jurisdiction of the
Bengal Lancer."
been pretty peaceful."
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-The ancient Court-of-Claims, which dats bark certainly to the Corona- tion of King Richard I., has opened in public in the Privy Council Ofees, Whitehall.
After the opening, however, the rest of the meetings of the Court will be held in private, and the Com- ners will then decide missioners "cast for the pageantry of nex! year's Cornuation procession.
the
The duty of the Court of Claints is to hear the various claimants for) the hereditary tices t Corona- tion, and to decide who shall per- form them when King Edward VIII, is crowned.
Some of the claimants will plead in person; most of them, however, will be represented by counsel.
BISHOPS HONOUR
usually to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster):
To carry the Royal Standard of Scotland:
(Dillegrout was the pottage which used to be made for the King's table on the coronation day. There was a which "tenure in serjeantry" by lands were held of the king by the acrvice of providing this potlage for that occasion.)
The most picturesque of all these! offices, that of the King's Champion,} has suffered a similar fate.
Until the time of George IV. the To carry a White Wand as Lord King's Champion appeared #t the High Steward of ireland; to prloor of Westminster Hall during the vile a Glove for the King's right banquel, mounted on a charger, and hand (which at the last Corona challenged any person mortal
Dion was given to the Duke of combat, who would dispute the King's Newcastle by tenure of the Manor right to the Crown. of Worksop);
the
To carry canopy aver King. If he wishes to have one (al claim last allowed to the Barons! of the Cinque Ports);
Lord
CLAIM DROPPED
By ancient right, that ofce be- longed to the Dymoke family,
na
WAB
To allow the Lord Mayor of owners of the Manor of Serivelaby,. London to hear the Crystal Mace. Lincolnshire, and the last to hold the At King George's Court of Claims office, at the Coronation of George there was only one important dispute. IV., was the Rov, John Dymoke.
The right to carry the Great Spurs
At the Coronations of Willlain. IV. was claimed by the Earl of London and Queen Victorin the family made Grey de Ruthy and Lord no claim to the office, and it There will probably be little dis-Hateg Edward VII's Coronation was crowned however, Air. Frank druppel. When King Edward VII. pute over must of the important
family's positions. Two are, by long custom, the same titles had all claimed this Dymoke put forward hin
It was excluded never disputed the right of the Bis office, which had been disallowed, a claim once more.
made out his from the jurisdiction of the Court as hops of Durham and of Bath and none of them had
pertaining to the former banquet. Wells to support the Sovereign dur claim.
NO BANQUET
The same thing happened when Some of the other important rights; In 1910. however, it was decided
that the Eart of Lorton and Lord Mr. Frank Seaman Dymoke raised To instruct the King in the Grey de Ruthyh had both established the claim again for the Coronation
ceremonies (accorded the claim, and it was left to the of King George..
ine the ceremony.
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